Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This project would have been impossible without the help and support of numerous friends and colleagues. At the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, we are grateful to Steven Miller, Stephen Walt, Robert Rotberg, and Sean Lynn-Jones for their support of this project, as well as their incisive comments and their mentorship. The essays contained in this book were the product of a workshop called “Paths to Violence,” hosted by the International Security Program and held at the Harvard Kennedy School in April 2008. Special thanks are due to Matthew Fuhrmann and Matthew Adam Kocher, both of whom attended the entire workshop and painstakingly reviewed the papers . Karen Motley has been a stellar editor. Without her, this book would not have been possible. We thank her for her efforts, efficiency, and good cheer. We also thank Nicholas Quah for assistance in preparing the index. Our cohort at the Belfer Center from 2007–2008 was an especially vibrant and engaging collection of scholars, and we are particularly grateful to Boaz Atzili, Emma Belcher, Jonathan Caverley, Erik Dahl, Ehud Eiran, Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch, Sarah Kreps, Matthew Kroenig, and Phil Potter for their encouragement throughout the project. And, of course, without Susan Lynch, all of us would have been lost. In addition, Chenoweth gratefully acknowledges her colleagues in the Government Department at Wesleyan University, whose friendship and support make life at Wesleyan a true joy. The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict has been a constant source of new ideas and opportunities , and she especially thanks Jack DuVall, Peter Ackerman, Hardy Merriman, and Stephen Zunes for their continued support of her work. She is especially grateful to Maria Stephan for their collaboration, and for giving her so many opportunities and so much encouragement to pursue interesting new questions. Chenoweth also thanks her mentors and colleagues at the University of Colorado. Jessica Teets, Orion Lewis, Michael Touchton, Helga Sverrisdottir, and Marilyn Averill remain great friends and colleagues, and Colin Dueck, Susan Clarke, Steve Chan, David Leblang , and Jennifer Fitzgerald all gave invaluable mentorship and advice that have carried her through all stages of her career. Chenoweth also x | acknowledgments gratefully acknowledges the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies, which provided resources and support for her research from 2007–2009, while she was a visiting fellow there. Finally, she has benefited from intellectual inspiration and motivation from the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), and gratefully acknowledges the continued support of outstanding colleagues like Laura Dugan, Victor Asal, Kathie Smarick, Gary Ackerman, Gary LaFree, John Horgan, and Mia Bloom. Lawrence wishes to thank her supportive colleagues at Yale University , particularly Thad Dunning, William Foltz, Stathis Kalyvas, Ellen Lust, Ana L. De La O, Ian Shapiro, Susan Stokes, and Elisabeth Wood for their excellent advice and comments on this project. Her research on nationalism and violence got its start in the stimulating intellectual environment at the University of Chicago. She would like to thank her cohort and advisers there for their ideas, feedback, and support, especially Bethany Albertson, H. Zeynep Bulutgil, Anne Holthoefer, Jenna Jordan, Charles Lipson, John Mearsheimer, Michelle Murray, Emily Nacol, Robert Pape, Keven Ruby, John Schuessler, Frank Smith, and Lisa Wedeen. Lawrence also gratefully acknowledges her colleagues at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, which provided support for this project from 2006–2007. She would also like to thank participants in workshops at Harvard University, Yale University , and MIT, particularly David Cunningham, Harris Mylonas, Roger Petersen, and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl. Last, but certainly not least, we wish to express our gratitude to our families. Lawrence thanks her family for their friendship, love, and support . Chenoweth’s family, all of whom are musicians, have given her an appreciation for the qualities of discipline, a striving for excellence, artistic expression, and the willingness to “think big.” Their contributions have made the world a more beautiful place to live, and their loving and unconditional support has made it easier for her to pursue her own professional aspirations. Chenoweth also acknowledges her other family—Kathe, Angi, Jon, Joyanna, Melody, Kathy and George, Tommy, Sarah, Scott, Rachel , Vic, and on and on—for showing her how to keep things in perspective and use her gifts for a better purpose. And finally, she thanks Allison for always believing in her and loving her no matter what. ...